As previously mentioned, weight control, which holds the key to your longevity, has everything to do with numbers, but these numbers are not only misleading but also unreliable because each individual's physical makeup is uniquely different. Beside, you wouldn't want to spend the rest of your life counting calories.

So what is the secret to weight loss and weight management?

There are only two major conditions for effective and permanent weight loss: you must be healthy, and you must eat less.

That may sound too simple to be true. But if you are healthy, most probably you do not have a weight problem. On the other hand, if you are unhealthy, and you would want to lose weight, it is like washing dirty dishes a sink of dirty water – it simply won't work. So, first and foremost, you must have a healthy body before you can manage your weight, or even shed a few extra pounds of unwanted weight.

How do you keep a healthy body?

You must detoxify it. A body loaded with toxins from the environment, from the chemicals in your foods and water, from your pharmaceutical drugs is never healthy.

To detoxify your body, go on a fast – a one-day fast, to begin with.

You could lose as much as one to two pounds per day during a fast. To lose one pound of body weight, you need to burn up 3,000 calories more than you consume – which is virtually impossible unless you exercise vigorously. The body is made up of mostly water. Sodium in food retains water. As soon as you fast, huge amount of water is eliminated or flushed out from your system (this is how and why fasting cleanses), despite the large quantity of water you consume. In weight control, calories do count. In fasting, there is nothing – no calorie, no protein, no carbohydrate. Absolutely nothing! The rate of losing weight is directly proportionate to the degree of your overweight.

However, the ultimate goal of fasting is not weight loss: it is internal cleansing for optimum health. In fact, you will put back some, if not all, of the pounds you have lost during a fast once you resume eating. Fasting helps you control, but not lose, your weight.

In addition to fasting, you may use foods to detoxify your body. Some of the most common foods are: Alfalfa sprouts, beets, burdock, and Green barley.

You may also use herbs to detoxify your body.

Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism via your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat. Keeping your systems of elimination in a healthy condition can help improve and protect your health. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support its natural cleansing process. Diuretics increase kidney function, and thus the elimination of urine and excess fluids

The most common herbs for detoxification are: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, Echinacea, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistle, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, and yarrow.

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